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SPACE

INTERNATIONAL SPACE

STATION

oeing - NASA’s lead industry
Bpartner for the Internati onal Space

Station since 1993 - will continue support-

ing the celebrated orbiting laboratory until
September 2024 under a (US) $916 million
contract extension awarded recently.
Boeing will provide engineering support
services, resources and personnel for

activities aboard the ISS and manage many

of the station’s systems. Work will be done

at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Centre in
Houston, the John F. Kennedy Space Centre
at Cape Canaveral, Florida and Marshall
Space Flight Centre in Huntsville, Alabama,

as well as other locations around the world. partners have agreed to extend ISS oper- Boeing people have contributed to

The contract is valued at about (US) $225 ations to at least 2024. Recent structural human spaceflight for more than 50 years,

million annually. analysis shows that the spacecraft contin- including the Mercury and Gemini cap-

“As the International Space Station marks ues to be safe and mission-capable. sules; development of the Saturn V rocket;

its 20th year of human habitation, Boeing NASA selected Boeing as the ISS prime Apollo command and service modules;

continues to enhance the utility and live- contractor in 1993. and space shuttle fleet, in addition to the

ability of the orbiting lab we built for NASA Throughout development, assembly, ISS. Boeing is building on this legacy with
decades ago,” said John Mulholland, Boeing habitation and daily operations aboard ISS, its CST-100 Starliner, a spacecraft devel-

vice president and programme manager for Boeing has partnered closely with NASA oped in partnership with NASA’s Commer-

the International Space Station. to help the agency and its international cial Crew Programme.

“We thank NASA for their confidence in partners safely host astronauts and cosmo- The company is also building the core

our team and the opportunity to support nauts for months at a time. The astronauts stage of NASA’s space launch system,

the agency’s vital work in spaceflight and conduct microgravity experiments that a rocket powerful enough to lift astro-

deep-space exploration for the benefit of help treat disease, increase food produc- nauts and spacecraft to destinations

all humankind.” tion, and manufacture technology impossi- beyond Earth orbit, such as lunar

Congress, NASA and its international ble to produce on Earth’s surface. orbit and Mars. Q
HELICOPTERS
60 YEARS IN JAPAN

ed through many challenges, starting as best support for customers’ success
a distributor and subsequently adding and safe operations,” said Guillaume

irbus Helicopters has marked maintenance and training capabilities Leprince, managing director of Airbus
Helicopters Japan.
over the years.
A60 years of a long-standing
“Airbus Helicopters Japan has es-
Airbus Helicopters has a team of 330
partnership with Japan this year. tablished itself in the country, offering personnel based in Tokyo and Kobe,

Since its predecessor Sud Aviation a comprehensive range of helicopter offering a suite of helicopter products.

entered into an exclusive distributorship solutions for customers in Japan,” said Aircraft completion, maintenance, engi-

agreement with Nozaki & Co in Japan Stephane Ginoux, head of North Asia at neering, technical support and training
in 1960, followed by the company’s Airbus. are provided at the company’s centre of
first helicopter delivery -an Alouette “We thank our customers and part- excellence in Kobe, as with aircraft and

II - in 1961, there are over 370 Airbus ners who have shown their continued spare parts sales.

helicopters flying in the country today confidence and trust. This achievement In January 2020, Airbus Helicopters

for a variety of missions across business demonstrates the reliability of our extended its footprint with a new han-
segments. products and services, and confirms the gar in Kobe, adding overall capacity by

“We are indeed very happy to cele- strong relationship between Japan and 60 percent, to handle 40 medium-sized

brate this milestone today with the part- Airbus. We stay committed to further helicopters all at the same time. This

ners and customers who have journeyed our co-operative ties with the Japanese translates to over 80 helicopters per

with us. As a company, we have navigat- industries and continue to render our year for MRO projects. Q

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